Yesterday was M.’s 9th birthday, her first since her father died. I tried my best to make it a good day for her, and I think it was. We got through the whole day without her being sad at all, which is good. I, of course, kept thinking about what he was missing, and how […]

Life changes fast. Life changes in an instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. The Year of Magical Thinking has been on my reading list since it first came out at the end of 2005, and I just hadn’t gotten around to reading it. In looking for books […]

As with most of us, I love the idea of reusing and recycling things that could otherwise just be useless. Pallets have been hugely popular over the years for the sheer variety of things you can do with them, either as a whole or by taking them apart. Reclaimed wood, especially barn wood, is just […]

Subscribe to Fameless Ramblings via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Email Address

If you can’t say it, you don’t get to play with it.

I can’t watch the debates. I’ve tried. It’s not that they’re dull or that they’re pointless, although they are both. It is that at some point during the evening I end up screaming at the tv. Still, every four years I forget this issue and make yet another attempt. This year I thought I’d start out small. I watched some of the vice-presidential debate. It started out pretty much as expected. There was the usual routine of backhanded compliments and respectfully hearing what the other was saying and then pointing out ever so politely how what the other person had said was not only misguided but generally an out and out lie. I can handle that. I mean, it’s irritating, but it’s politics. (Or is that redundant?). But then Sarah Palin opened her mouth. And what came out sent me over the edge. Was it her stand on the war in Iraq? No, although I don’t agree with much of what she says about anything. But then I don’t agree with any of them as a general rule. Was it her outlook on the economy? No, I can’t honestly say what her position is.

Sarah Palin said “nu-cu-lar.” And my head nearly went up like an A-bomb.

The word is nuclear. Nu. Cle. Ar. There are no letters between the c and the l. Therefore it cannot, by any reasonable standards, be pronounced Nucular. If you say it, I’m sorry, there’s no nice way to put this: YOU ARE A MORON.

And if you can’t correctly pronounce the word, you sure as shit don’t get to have a job where you potentially could be in charge of them.